Apparatus for manufacturing cigars



(Men 11. F. MOELLER & J. P. SIERK.

. APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CIGARS. No. 304,347. yen tented Sept. 2,188

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HENRYF. MOELLER AND JOHANFL smart, or DAVENPORT, IOWA.

APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CIGARS.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,31-7, datedSeptember 2, 1384.

Application filed October 17, 1883.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY F. MoELLER and J OHAN F. SIERK, of Davenport,in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented certainImprovements in Apparatus for Manufacturing Cigars, of which thefollowing is a specification;

Our invention relates to the manufacture of cigars, and particularly tothe formation therein, during the process of manufacture, of a centralaperture or tunnel to permit the passage of air and smoke, or, as it iscommonly expressed, to cause the cigar to draw readily.

The invention consists in a drying apparatus containing a lamp orheater, a water vessel or chamber, and two or more dies or cups toreceive the points of the cigars, each provided with a centralprong orpin having at its lower end a head or enlargement to form an orificewider than the main tunnel or airpassage, so that the orifice will notbe closed when the tip is moistened, the dies or cups being each partlyimmersed in the hot water, and thus moderately heated to effect thedrying of the tip in proper form.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective View ofour improved apparatus; Fig. 2, a Vertical central section of the same;Fig. 3, a sectional view of one of the cups or dies, and Fig. 4 asectional elevation of a cigar made in the improved manner.

Various attempts have heretofore been made to produce a cigar having acentral tunnel or passage for air and smoke extendingfrom the tip orpoint inward toward the body of the cigar for the purpose mentioned; butit is believed that no one has hitherto been successful in producingsuch acigar capable of being smoked without practically closing thepassage or opening. The present invention therefore aims to prevent suchclosing of the tunnel or passage, and with this object in View theapparatus is constructed as shown in the annexed drawings, in which Arepresents a metal body or cylinder, having at its top a water chamberor vessel, B,and at its lower end a lamp, gas-burner, or otherconvenient form of heater, 0, as shown, to heat the water in vessel Bf DD represent two cupshaped dies or sock- (No model.)

ets, which may be conveniently formed of soft metal, each adapted toreceive the point of a cigar, and provided with a central prong or pin,E, which enters the tip of the cigar as the latter is inserted into thedie or socket, and perforates said tip, the cigar being at the time in amoist condition, and therefore not liable to injury from the prong orpin. The pin or prong is of tapering from, and terminates at its upperend in a sharp point. At its lower end, or at the bottom of the die orsocket, it is provided with a swell or enlargement, at, projectingupward into said socket, as shown in Fig; 3. This swell or enlargementturns the wrapper b of the cigar inward into the orifice or mouth of thetunnel or open ing F, as more plainly shown in Fig. 4:, at the same timeenlarging said mouth or orifice,a'nd thereby preventing its closing orcollapsing when the tip is moistened. By thus turning the wrapper inwardinto the mouth of the opening it is prevented from separating from orpeeling off of the filling, which is liable to occur where a simpleperforation is formed. The enlargement to therefore serves a veryimportant purpose in this apparatus.

In order to insure the proper drying of the tip while upon the prong orperforator, it is necessary that the cigar should be allowed to remainthereon for a greater length of time than elapses between the removal ofone and the placing of another cigar in the socket, where a singlesocket or cup is used and the handling of the cigars is carried onwithout delay or interruption; hence, instead ofproviding only a singlecup or die, two or more are furnished, and these are supplied withcigars alternately or successively, thus giving the first cigar a periodfor drying equal to the time required for supplying the other cups ordies with cigars, and so with each of the others. Inthe drawings twosuch cups or dies are shown, and these will ordinarily be foundsufficient; but the number may obviously be increased, as desired. Thebody A is furnished with a window or opening, 0, by which the conditionof the flame of lamp or heater 0 may be seen from the outside.

No claim is made herein to-the broad idea of Ice perforating the tip orend of a cigar in the process of manufacture by pressing it upon aheated perforating prong, as that has before been done.

It is not known that any onehas heretofore provided two or moreperforating and drying devices in one apparatus, whereby the period ofdrying might be prolonged without retardmanufacture, consisting of bodyA, water-vessel B, heater 0, and two or more sockets or cups, D, eachprovided with'a perforatingprong, and adapted to be used alternately orsuccessively,whereby a proper period for drying is secured withoutretarding the operations of the manufacturer.

2. The apparatus herein described, consisting of cylinder A,water-vessel B, heater'G,

cups or sockets D, and perforating-prongs E, arranged within the cups orsockets D, and having swell or enlargement a, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

HENRY F. MOELLER. J'OHAN F. SIERK.

\Vitnesses:

H. BLooK, CARL (l. SOHARFENBERG,

